the senate projects debate between iowa republican senator joni ernst and new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen. the debate and conversation streamed live on fox nation today. designed to facilitate substantive discussion of policy and hopes of finding areas of agreement or common ground. we will have highlights from that event a little later in the show. bret: breaking tonight, former president donald trump is in florida this evening ahead of his appearance, his court appearance tomorrow afternoon in miami. he faces a 37 count indictment, including obstruction and how he handled classified documents. correspondent griff jenkins is in miami with the latest. vening, griff. griff: good evening, bret. the former president is here in miami, expected to be meeting this evening with his new legal team and despite the political bluster, bret, he is fully aware of the seriousness of these charges. the first former president to ever face formal criminal charges landing
going to happen. dana: that s true. jesse: what did he say? bret: good evening. i m bret baier, breaking tonight. blame game over the southern border intensifies as the migrant surges. the biden administration is pointing financingsers at republicans saying the g.o.p. is are rejecting throtion add more agents. this comes as democrats call on the white house to do more. as homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas faces a republican-led impeachment effort over dereliction of duty we will speak with secretary mayorkas live in moments. bill melugin is in eagle pass, texas again with the latest on the ground and we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. jacqui: good evening to you, bret. right now the white house and the house are not talking. even as a bipartisan group in the senate tries to work out a border policy reform deal they hope could also pass the lower chamber and unlock funding. and right now
announce their participation. one of them former vice president mike pence submitted his government forms today. correspondent mark meredith is on the story tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening, like you said, it s getting bigger by the day. the three men jumping into the race this week are all former prominent trump supporters. clear candidates feel more comfortable taking on the frontrunner. the question remains will republicans want an alternative next year. hello, iowa. former vice president mike pence is challenging donald trump for the demonstration. today pence filed his paperwork with the fec and will formally roll out his campaign in iowa on wednesday. republican primary voters are going to look at the field, think very deeply about who can best carry our message and carry majorities to victory. pence will face considerable competition including from south carolina senator tim scott who tonight is generating considerable buzz after appearing on
the air quality is slowly getting worse. canada is seeing one of its worst fire seasons on record. thick smoke coated skies as far as south as tennessee. have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the pga. liv golf i recognize people are going to call me a hypocrite but circumstances do change. all right. we begin very familiar place, with the border crisis office of florida governor ron desantis confirming two migrant flights that arrived in sacramento, california. california is now investigating and the state attorney general and the governor there gavin newsom are threatening kidnapping charges. i m sure that will stick. holy cow. peter doocy live at the white house with details. that s a new one. ron desantis kidnapper? that is a new one. we seal how it plays on the campaign trail. but there were all these questions yesterday. about how these migrants wound up in california. officials in florida said they sent them on aircraft. and we have
bipartisan cocktail of votes to pass. but there s bipartisan opposition. i m not sure what in the bill people are concerned about. it s the largest savings of 1.1 trillion we have ever had. number votes he might be. i haven t. necessary to do to make sure. you have been here a long time. any time there is an agreement with two parties, there s always two parties who vote for it at the end. minority leader hakeem jeffries say democrats will hold up their end of the bargain. we also are committed to making sure occurs that the house republicans keep their promise to produce at least 150 votes, period, full stop. that means at least 68 democrats must vote yes. but g.o.p. votes could be on thin ice. i think the no votes are going to increase as more people know more about this bill. there s going to be some very sore feelings around here. we voted for the speaker to make good deals not do what the democrats wanted. conservatives are seething at mccarthy. the